“My favorite registry hacks to boost performance of Windows XP”:http://weblogs.java.net/blog/inder/archive/2006/06/my_favorite_reg.html. Ik heb ze nog niet geprobeerd maar op het eerste zicht klinkt het allemaal redelijk logisch en moet het wel werken.

Kleine summary van mijnentwege:

• Remove DLLs from loading for applications that are not running anymore.
• Place Windows Kernel in RAM.
• Disable 8.3 Name creation in NTFS
• Make network browsing to be faster by preventing checking of remote scheduled tasks.
• Disable services that are no longer being used.
• Remove error message at Startup that refuses to go away.
• For deleting programs from starting up at the boot time: delete their entries from…
• For uninstalling unruly programs from “Add Remove Programs” control panel applet…
• Displaying Ghosted or nonpresent devices (to uninstall them afterwards).